Germany’s feed-in tariff program has been at the heart of its renewable energy policy. Ongoing monitoring and public data and analysis have been crucial for setting the rates for the scheme, and for supporting public debate on the costs and benefits.
This paper, produced by the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, explores the benefits and limitations of a decision by APEC countries to reduce tariffs to 5% or less on a list of 54 environmental goods.
At the Davos forum of January 2014, a group of 14 countries pledged to launch negotiations on liberalizing trade in "green goods" (also known as "environmental" goods), focusing on the elimination of tariffs for an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation list of 54 products.
The paper delves into the agreement to liberalise environmental goods and concludes that because applied tariffs on the defined list of goods are generally low, only a relatively small number of products will actually benefit from a tariff reduction. However, the paper notes that given the polit
The Environmental Goods Agreement (EGA), initiated in 2014, is intended to reduce tariffs on a list of goods by the signatories, after which concessions will be extended to all WTO members based on the most-favoured-nation principle.
The green economy policy discourse has devoted a lot of attention to the design of public policy addressing low-carbon technologies. In this paper the researchers examine the impacts of public R&D support and feed-in tariff schemes on innovation in the wind energy sector.